Myth. Circumcision's only effect on hygiene is that lazy people find it easier to clean if they're circumcised. On the other hand, scar tissue is *more* susceptible to infection...
The patriarchy does harm men, yes. Without the patriarchy, more men would be willing to admit that they'd been beaten, and other men wouldn't ridicule them "for being beat up by a girl." Until it's ok for men to admit that they'd been beaten by a woman and not suffer for it, this won't change. Think about that next time you say or hear someone say "dude, I can't believe that bitch owned you!"
Early adopters mean people who upgraded at release time? Huh...interesting...
I've been running Karmic since the first week of June, alpha 1. Sure I hit bugs back during the early alphas, but meh. Since release? Or rather...since a month before release? No problems.
But very large quantities of the first is certainly harming. If ya go on IRC to get help, and you're hit on and get scared off, before you've even had a chance to write your first patch and get it reviewed...? I don't see how that's a good thing.
Archaic? No way in hell. Re-read what you wrote. Only the 19th century? "They" was in use as a singular gender-neutral pronoun 400 years before that! I'm pretty sure I said "they or ze" didn't I? Though, ya know, learning the term "ze" sure does make sense what with all the openly transgender people out there...
Well the problem is not everyone is like you:) And yeah, apparently a lot of women left computing in the 80s if you look at the percentages over time. Used to be an Old Girls Club:P
Well I'd argue that "somebody who looks physically like a man but who thinks they should look like a woman" is a category of "woman," but anyway...
Ok, yes, there may be other reasons to use the account name, but what is the most likely *perception*? Hispanic woman, I'm guessing. So the question is, based on that perception (whether right or wrong) would the poster be treated differently?
It's irritating, though, to have to correct it all the time. And I think it contributes to the invisibility problem. If I don't correct it when I'm called "he" I feel like there *might* be some other woman in the IRC channel and she'll miss out on "ah! I'm not alone! Yay!" Instead it reinforces the notion that there are rather literally no women. I mean, if we all kept our mouth shut... Make sense? I gotta say, my first LUG meeting would've been much more uncomfortable without the one other woman. I'm commonly the only one now, but everyone there knows me so meh. I'm not an outsider anymore. Hopefully the next time a new woman shows up, it's for a meeting I've decided to attend, so she's not alone.
While I do wonder if what you said about SRS was meant to imply that transwoman aren't "real women," I just want to point out that acting differently toward someone based on the perception that they're female is no different than doing it on the knowledge that they're female. Both are sexist.
I've been on slashdot for a decade, and frankly the place is a lot more comfortable if you just post from a gender-neutral/apparently male viewpoint. That's one reason why there are no girls on the interbuttz - IMHO a good number of us have simply decided that the geek world is most bearable if you keep gender entirely out of the discussion.
Yep, I know quite a few women who work on FOSS who have never commented on Slashdot or Digg because they can't stand the sexism in the comments.
By "gender is masked" you mean "gender is assumed male until you choose to admit you're a freak," right? Because that's how it really is, from a woman's perspective. We're not assumed gender-neutral. If we were, everybody'd say "they" or "ze" instead of referring to every developer as "he" or "dude" or "guy" without proof that the person in question actually identifies as a man. No, we are definitely assumed to be men if we don't...well, basically, if we don't come out of the closet about being women.
Don't forget: you can tell HR if you're sexually harassed at work and the harasser will likely be removed. Do the same in a FOSS project and..."but he writes good patches, so it's ok!"
How do you know that a man would not let the unpopularity of his choice or what some online asshats say dissuade him from doing what he wanted? If men really had that much backbone, male nurses wouldn't be so uncommon.
At GWU, Student Technology Services does not support Linux. They told me that using Linux on the wifi was impossible. I proved them wrong, typed up a how-to, and now they give that to anyone who asks about Linux on the network. Turns out they didn't know how so assumed it couldn't be done. My email address is on there, so Linux-using students email me for help on occasion. Discovered that EeePC Xandros doesn't reset the default route and thus fails with the usual vpnc method. Should probably give them an updated version that mentions that...
There are Fedora and Ubuntu machines in the CS dept, and CentOS in Physics. Servers and some CS dept desktops run Solaris. Most everything else is Windows XP. A few Macs for design people.
By the way, my step-dad grew up with a single mom on welfare. He eventually decided he didn't want that scary welfare man coming around anymore, so he took extra shifts at the ice cream parlor (including during his lunch break at school) to make enough money to support him and his mom without welfare when he was a kid. When he got older, he did landscaping. He worked hard and he *talked to people*. Working hard on a wealthy person's front garden and making sure they got to know him and know that he worked hard helped a lot. Then he could get recommendations as a good, hard worker. He says, "be the best at whatever you do. If you're a busboy, be the best damn busboy around. If you're the guy making boxes at the warehouse, be the best box maker around." The key is that if you work hard, someone will take notice and want to hire you to work hard on what they need done.
Oh, by the way, he's the President & CEO of...I've lost count, either 4 or 5 businesses, I think.
"Third, you may think you see the upper management doing nothing but yakking and golfing but that is far from the truth about how much they actually work."
Consider also: that may be work. How do you get a potential new client to sign that lucrative contract? Well, yak on the phone for a while to convince them, and if that's not working, meet them in person to chat--for example, at lunch or over a game of golf.
Uh huh...fiber is junk food? Since when? Throughout history and in just about every culture, the traditional way of eating has been 70% grain & 30% bean/protein. That's what we evolved to eat. You're supposed to get a lot of fiber. It's good for your digestive system, cleans it out a bit. If you're not getting any fiber, you're doing some major damage to your body. Yes, you can get fiber from fruits too (mmmm prunes), but I bet next you're going to tell us that fruits are bad for you because they naturally contain sugars.
When it comes to Crohn's, it's mostly process of elimination. My boyfriend has it, and the way he figured this out, is his doctor told him to drop dairy so that his lactose intolerance wouldn't interfere. Did that help? No...ok, drop gluten. That help? No...ok.... and after lots of playing with his diet and some tests, you reach the point where it's "ok, this isn't IBS, it isn't your lactose intolerance flaring up, it isn't an allergy...must be Crohn's."
Playing with his diet also had the added bonus of teaching him which foods cause it to flare up. He knows that red meat is the worst (too much work to digest), poultry just behind that, and fish after that. Plants only have him in the usual state of constant, mild pain (as opposed to the sharp pain animals cause), so he sticks to that.
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Nope, none of the feminists I hang out with say those things.
Myth. Circumcision's only effect on hygiene is that lazy people find it easier to clean if they're circumcised. On the other hand, scar tissue is *more* susceptible to infection...
The patriarchy does harm men, yes. Without the patriarchy, more men would be willing to admit that they'd been beaten, and other men wouldn't ridicule them "for being beat up by a girl." Until it's ok for men to admit that they'd been beaten by a woman and not suffer for it, this won't change. Think about that next time you say or hear someone say "dude, I can't believe that bitch owned you!"
Early adopters mean people who upgraded at release time? Huh...interesting...
I've been running Karmic since the first week of June, alpha 1. Sure I hit bugs back during the early alphas, but meh. Since release? Or rather...since a month before release? No problems.
Awww thanks! :)
But very large quantities of the first is certainly harming. If ya go on IRC to get help, and you're hit on and get scared off, before you've even had a chance to write your first patch and get it reviewed...? I don't see how that's a good thing.
Archaic? No way in hell. Re-read what you wrote. Only the 19th century? "They" was in use as a singular gender-neutral pronoun 400 years before that! I'm pretty sure I said "they or ze" didn't I? Though, ya know, learning the term "ze" sure does make sense what with all the openly transgender people out there...
To your subject line: http://xkcd.com/322/
And I hung out with the nerdy/bookworm boys and girls. Much more intellectually stimulating than fashion.
Well the problem is not everyone is like you :) And yeah, apparently a lot of women left computing in the 80s if you look at the percentages over time. Used to be an Old Girls Club :P
Well I'd argue that "somebody who looks physically like a man but who thinks they should look like a woman" is a category of "woman," but anyway...
Ok, yes, there may be other reasons to use the account name, but what is the most likely *perception*? Hispanic woman, I'm guessing. So the question is, based on that perception (whether right or wrong) would the poster be treated differently?
Ah ok sorry
It's irritating, though, to have to correct it all the time. And I think it contributes to the invisibility problem. If I don't correct it when I'm called "he" I feel like there *might* be some other woman in the IRC channel and she'll miss out on "ah! I'm not alone! Yay!" Instead it reinforces the notion that there are rather literally no women. I mean, if we all kept our mouth shut... Make sense? I gotta say, my first LUG meeting would've been much more uncomfortable without the one other woman. I'm commonly the only one now, but everyone there knows me so meh. I'm not an outsider anymore. Hopefully the next time a new woman shows up, it's for a meeting I've decided to attend, so she's not alone.
Note: "a woman's" not "all women's" ;-)
While I do wonder if what you said about SRS was meant to imply that transwoman aren't "real women," I just want to point out that acting differently toward someone based on the perception that they're female is no different than doing it on the knowledge that they're female. Both are sexist.
Yep, I know quite a few women who work on FOSS who have never commented on Slashdot or Digg because they can't stand the sexism in the comments.
Sure, but say your email address is rosita.gonzales@yahoo.es...Right there we can probably figure out that you're a Spanish woman, right?
My dad says I was the only 14 year old girl he'd ever met to ask for a power drill for Christmas.
By "gender is masked" you mean "gender is assumed male until you choose to admit you're a freak," right? Because that's how it really is, from a woman's perspective. We're not assumed gender-neutral. If we were, everybody'd say "they" or "ze" instead of referring to every developer as "he" or "dude" or "guy" without proof that the person in question actually identifies as a man. No, we are definitely assumed to be men if we don't...well, basically, if we don't come out of the closet about being women.
Don't forget: you can tell HR if you're sexually harassed at work and the harasser will likely be removed. Do the same in a FOSS project and..."but he writes good patches, so it's ok!"
How do you know that a man would not let the unpopularity of his choice or what some online asshats say dissuade him from doing what he wanted? If men really had that much backbone, male nurses wouldn't be so uncommon.
At GWU, Student Technology Services does not support Linux. They told me that using Linux on the wifi was impossible. I proved them wrong, typed up a how-to, and now they give that to anyone who asks about Linux on the network. Turns out they didn't know how so assumed it couldn't be done. My email address is on there, so Linux-using students email me for help on occasion. Discovered that EeePC Xandros doesn't reset the default route and thus fails with the usual vpnc method. Should probably give them an updated version that mentions that...
There are Fedora and Ubuntu machines in the CS dept, and CentOS in Physics. Servers and some CS dept desktops run Solaris. Most everything else is Windows XP. A few Macs for design people.
By the way, my step-dad grew up with a single mom on welfare. He eventually decided he didn't want that scary welfare man coming around anymore, so he took extra shifts at the ice cream parlor (including during his lunch break at school) to make enough money to support him and his mom without welfare when he was a kid. When he got older, he did landscaping. He worked hard and he *talked to people*. Working hard on a wealthy person's front garden and making sure they got to know him and know that he worked hard helped a lot. Then he could get recommendations as a good, hard worker. He says, "be the best at whatever you do. If you're a busboy, be the best damn busboy around. If you're the guy making boxes at the warehouse, be the best box maker around." The key is that if you work hard, someone will take notice and want to hire you to work hard on what they need done.
Oh, by the way, he's the President & CEO of...I've lost count, either 4 or 5 businesses, I think.
"Third, you may think you see the upper management doing nothing but yakking and golfing but that is far from the truth about how much they actually work."
Consider also: that may be work. How do you get a potential new client to sign that lucrative contract? Well, yak on the phone for a while to convince them, and if that's not working, meet them in person to chat--for example, at lunch or over a game of golf.
Her pathologist gave it to her to use for the school experiment.
"junk food like grains or bread"
Uh huh...fiber is junk food? Since when? Throughout history and in just about every culture, the traditional way of eating has been 70% grain & 30% bean/protein. That's what we evolved to eat. You're supposed to get a lot of fiber. It's good for your digestive system, cleans it out a bit. If you're not getting any fiber, you're doing some major damage to your body. Yes, you can get fiber from fruits too (mmmm prunes), but I bet next you're going to tell us that fruits are bad for you because they naturally contain sugars.
When it comes to Crohn's, it's mostly process of elimination. My boyfriend has it, and the way he figured this out, is his doctor told him to drop dairy so that his lactose intolerance wouldn't interfere. Did that help? No...ok, drop gluten. That help? No...ok.... and after lots of playing with his diet and some tests, you reach the point where it's "ok, this isn't IBS, it isn't your lactose intolerance flaring up, it isn't an allergy...must be Crohn's."
Playing with his diet also had the added bonus of teaching him which foods cause it to flare up. He knows that red meat is the worst (too much work to digest), poultry just behind that, and fish after that. Plants only have him in the usual state of constant, mild pain (as opposed to the sharp pain animals cause), so he sticks to that.